For weeks, concerns of a second Jan. 6 have percolated to the front of political discourse. Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies have suggested that should Trump lose the election again, or if there is any type of delay in counting the vote, he and his supporters could try to seize power.

Over the past month, Harris has claimed that Trump is growing increasingly “unhinged” and seeking “absolute power.” The vice president told NBC News that she has a team of lawyers prepared to handle any legal challenges launched by the Trump campaign, should he try to declare victory early as he did in 2020.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Harris’s running mate, has similarly suggested that Trump’s half-hearted proposal to bring in military members to police voting locations might already amount to treason.

“The idea of sending U.S. military personnel against American citizens makes me sick to my stomach,” Walz said during an October interview with Fox News. “I’ll tell you what, we’ll let the lawyers decide if what he said was treason, but what I know is it’s a call for violence, plain and simple, and it’s pretty damn un-American if you ask me.”

Republicans, on the other hand, claim that Democrats have been denying election results for “decades” and that the Harris campaign “won’t accept the results of the election” if she loses. The Harris campaign did not respond to inquiries on the subject.

Still, Democrats in North Carolina, one of seven battleground states this cycle, scoffed at the idea that Harris supporters would look to overturn a Trump electoral win.

June Ward of Weaverville told the Washington Examiner that she does have a “grave fear” that Trump will seek to block the certification of results a second time but claimed that Democrats would not take such drastic steps should Harris lose.

“I hope that the victory for the Harris-Walz team is so definite and deafening that that may not happen — just more sensible voices prevail,” she told the Washington Examiner. “I think that once the results are certified, that the Democratic Party, I think, will be likely to accept, and not without a lot of concern and dread, but will accept the result.”

As for the Trump team’s claim that Harris will not accept unfavorable election results, Peter Adams of Asheville said he does not “believe anything Donald Trump says” and that “absolutely” overturning elections is a “MAGA thing.

“He has lied from Day One,” Adams continued. “I haven’t heard an honest word out of his mouth since he opened it.”

Buncombe County resident Melissa Duong added that talk of denying the election results is a “D.C. thing.”

“We really don’t talk about that,” she explained. “So that may be something that’s specific to what’s happening in D.C.”

Emer O’Shaughnessy, also of Weaverville, told the Washington Examiner that not accepting a Trump win as legitimate “hasn’t crossed [her] mind” and that she’s “less than concerned” about Democrats storming the Capitol.

Earlier this month, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Axios that if Trump “won a free, fair, and honest election, then we would obviously accept it” but noted that the former president is “definitely” doing “whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating Electoral College counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments.”

Raskin, who objected to Trump electors in 2017, did not respond to a request for comment.

Jason Johnson, a spokesman for Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), told the Washington Examiner that “Grijalva will accept the will of the voters and the certified results of the 2024 Arizona election” but claimed that there is “an incredible double standard” in coverage of election denials. Grijalva also objected to the certification of Trump’s win in 2017.

“It was Trump who caused January 6th, and it was Republicans that challenged the certified election results,” he said in a statement. “It’s them you should be asking if they’ll accept the 2024 election results.”

Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, ranging from filing dozens of election fraud lawsuits in states across the country to inspiring the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, have been widely documented and the subject of his second impeachment and federal prosecution by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Trump’s rhetoric surrounding Election Day has grown increasingly polarizing in recent weeks, including referring to “the enemy within” the United States and retribution against his political foes who break the law.

But Republicans note that Democrats also have frequently denied election results in the past.

The Republican National Committee lists more than 150 alleged examples of “Democrats denying election results” on its website.

The RNC focuses heavily on former Vice President Al Gore’s failed 2000 campaign, noting that a bevy of Democratic heavyweights have claimed that former President George W. Bush did not legitimately win the 2000 election. That list includes former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The RNC also notes that seven House Democrats unsuccessfully sought to object to the certification of the 2016 election and that 67 Democratic lawmakers boycotted Trump’s 2017 inauguration and claimed his win was “illegitimate.”

Republicans also have not forgotten that Harris herself, in 2018, claimed that “voter suppression” blocked former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams from winning the Peach State’s gubernatorial race. Abrams has never conceded that election loss.